All Srarch:
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| Google | Google - The world's most popular search engine. |
| Bing | Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never. |
| Yahoo! Search | Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report. |
| AltaVista | AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo technology powers AltaVista. |
| Cuil | Cuil: Cuil is a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched in July, 2008 and claims to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of MS. |
| Excite | Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms. |
| Go.com | Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly! |
| HotBot | HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. |
| AllTheWeb | AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. |
| Galaxy | Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin |
| AOL Search | search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official. |
| Live Search | Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) Microsoft's web search engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer web browser. |
| Lycos | Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix. |
| Gigablast | GigaBlast was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages. |
| Alexa Internet | Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own search. |
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Accounting:
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| IFAC.com | IFAC.com: For resources and information on Ifrs and Accounting. |
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Bit Torrent:
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| btjunkie | Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over 1,800,000 active torrents. |
| Demonoid.com | Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by CRIA. |
| FlixFlux | FlixFlux: From its website, "The ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with film information, making it easy to find new film releases." |
| isoHunt | isoHunt, a comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, P2P file search and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per month. |
| MiniNova | Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org - a search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database, over 4 Billion downloads. |
| The Pirate Bay | The Pirate Bay (aka "TPB"): Based in Sweden where torrent trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is clearly labeled. |
| TorrentSpy | TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire's feed into its front page. |
| Torrentz Search | Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable portal. |
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Blog:
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| Amatomu | Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere, sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa. |
| Bloglines | Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005. |
| Blogperfect | Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search |
| Blogscope | BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. Itcurrently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with 275.6million posts. |
| icerocket | IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs. |
| Sphere | Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web. |
| Technorati | Technorati catalogs over 112 million weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its byline of "What's percolating in blogs now". A supporter and contributor to open source software. |
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Books:
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| FreeBook | FreeBookSearch.net - Comprehensive book searching portal with more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books. |
| GoogleBook | Google Book Search The power of Google to find books. Google's entry will not let you see full text if the copyright is still active in your jurisdiction. |
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Business:
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| AliBaba | Alibaba.com - Claims to be the world's largest database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a marketplace of export and import, offers search, company directory, catalog, trade leads and more. |
| BankersAlmanac | Bankersalmanac.com provides intelligent reference data solutions to the banking industry for payments, due diligence, risk assessment and financial research. |
| Business.com | business.com: contains more than 400,000 listings within about 65,000 categories. Search results are preceded by four types of paid links. |
| Hoovers | Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company, maintains a database of over 23 million companies. Some information is provided free, other information is available to paid subscribers. Good for company stock information. |
| Kompass | Kompass: 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive names. A guide for worldwide sourcing. |
| Lexis Nexis | Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the "world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information". Searchable archive of newspapers, public records & more. |
| ThomasNet | ThomasNet: Powered by the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (The Big Green Books published since 1898). Catalogs over 650,000 American companies in 67,000 categories. |
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Email:
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| eMail-Search | Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number of tools for searching email addresses. Find current, former email addresses, extract them from the web. |
| Nicado | Nicado: Free to register, Search email addresses. The Nicado search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an email address or telephone number. |
| TEK | TEK search engine is an email-based search engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to search the Web using only email. It is intended to be used by people with low internet connectivity. |
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Enterprise:
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| AskMeNow | AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution for mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a consumer mobile search utilizing proprietary technology & natural language based interaction. |
| Autonomy | Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly Verity), Ultraseek |
| Dieselpoint | Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation. Dieselpoint provides advanced full-text search with data navigation capability. It gives users highly relevant results not possible with either traditional search engines or SQL databases. |
| dt Search | dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web. dtSearch provides simple to use but very powerful tools which create and maintain full text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes of text can be searched. |
| Endeca | Endeca's search and information access solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and understand information. This is the Guided Navigation experience. |
| Exalead | Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead - Internet search engine, image search engine, video search engine ... WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » · Advanced search. 8 billion pages indexed to date. |
| ExpertSystem | Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer in developing semantic technologies to understand and manage unstructured information. Expert System's semantic approach enables rapid classification of information. |
| FastSearch | Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) |
| Funnelback | Funnelback is an Internet and Enterprise search engine company offering a suite of search solutions, hosted solution for the web and a fully customisable enterprise solution for searching behind the firewall. |
| Google | Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for employees to find information inside your organization as it is to find information on google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance. |
| MSoffice | Microsoft's SharePoint Search Services: Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architecture with Windows Search. |
| Northern | Northern Light Search: Search articles from over 800 online news feeds and over 1,000 industry authority blogs. |
| Opent Text | Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions supporting +/- 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. |
| Oracle | Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. |
| SAP Trex | SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large collections of documents. |
| SAIC Teratext | TeraText Suite: Most data resides in semi-structured, primarily textual documents, not in structured, organizational repositories. Teratext is designed for text-rich data repositories. |
| Vivisimo | Vivisimo Clustering Engine developed by scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic knowledge to find relationships between search terms and bring them to light. (Web search: Clusty) |
| ZyLAB | ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform for government and corporates does capturing, archiving, searching, security, and context-specific content-management. |
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Forum:
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| Omgili | Omgili (Oh My God, I Love It!): Find out what people are saying. Personal experiences, solutions to problems, ideas and opinions. |
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Games:
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| Cheatsearch | Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any game. |
| Genie Knows | Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search. |
| Wazap | Wazap is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site that distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads and reviews. |
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HumanSearch:
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| ChaCha | ChaCha Search is a search engine that pays human "guides" to answer questions for users. This is a technique known as social searching. |
| Eurekster | Eurekster is a New Zealand company, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis (search+wicki). |
| Mahalo | Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) - the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines by tracking and building hand-crafted results for searches. |
| Rollyo | Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their search results. |
| Trexy | Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you create while searching and finding information on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share your "search trails". Easier searching of the "deep web". |
| Wink | Wink: Wink People Search: Over 333,304,647 people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more. |
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International:
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| Accoona | Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence. In addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches, and its signature "SuperTarget" feature. Partnered with China Daily, a large Chinese portal. |
| Alleba | Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly organized directory of Filipino websites. |
| Ansearch | Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. Ansearch Ltd is involved in various online media activities, including the Ansearch.com.au search engine and the Soush online media network |
| Araby | Araby: Middle East - Arabic language search engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which owns the world's largest online Arab community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only) |
| Baidu | Baidu: China - The Google of China, Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market. |
| Daum | Daum: Korea - Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea which offers many Internet services including search, a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. |
| Guruji | Guruji.com: India - an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context. |
| Goo | goo: Japan - an Internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites. goo is operated by the Japanese telecomm giant NTT. |
| Miner | Miner.hu: Hungary - a vertical search engine for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian content on the internet. Miner.hu indexes about 129.000 blogs. |
| Najdi.si | Najdi.si: Slovenia - a Slovenian search engine and web portal created by Interseek. It's the most visited website in Slovenia. It uses a technology created by Interseek written entirely in Java |
| Naver | Naver: Korea - The undisputed number 1 search engine in Korea with over 16 million visitors and 1 billion page views per day. |
| Onet | Onet: Poland - Polish language web portal and search. |
| Onkosh | Onkosh: Middle East - Arabic language search. |
| Rambler | Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web search (Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory, media, ecommerce and other services to the Russian-speaking websurfer. |
| Rediff | Rediff: India - India's leading internet portal for news, mail, messenger, entertainment, business, mobile, ecommerce, shopping, auctions, search, sports and more. |
| Sapo | SAPO: Portugal - Portuguese language search based in Portugal and focused on Portugal. |
| Search.CH | Search.ch: Switzerland - a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as a regional search engine, later many other services were added: phonebook, SMS service. Acquired by the Swiss Post. |
| Sesam | Sesam: Norway, Sweden - Based in Norway and focused on Norway and Sweden. |
| Walla | Walla!: Israel - Search the web in Hebrew with an Israel focus. |
| Yandex | Yandex: Russia - Yandex (Russian: ?´?????) is a Russian search engine and one of the largest Russian Web portals. Yandex was launched in 1997. |
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Job:
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| Bixee (India) | Bixee (India): Comprehensive jobsearch for India. |
| Career Builder | Career Builder: The career builder website. |
| Craig's List | Craig's List: is a centralized network of online communities, with free classified ads (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums. |
| CV Fox | Find resumes (CV's) from all over the World Wide Web |
| Dice.com | Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For technology experts in areas such as Information Technology (IT), software, high tech, security, biotech, and more. Recently purchased eFinancialCareers.com. |
| Eluta.ca | Eluta.ca (Canada) - High-paying jobs in Canada directly from employers' websites. Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+ employers across Canada. |
| HotJobs | Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your resume, research careers at featured companies, compare salaries and get career advice on Yahoo! HotJobs. |
| Incruit | Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the first Korean match making site between job seekers and companies and claims the first Korean Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998). |
| Indeed.com | Indeed.com: A job 'meta-search' that scours job boards, newspapers and multiple sources with one search interface. |
| Jobs.pl | Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish team of MBA's, Poland's leading job portal. Partially owned by European Media Group "Orkla Press" from Scandinavia. |
| JobsDB | JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific focused job and recruitment site with databases dedicated to each country in the Asia/Pacific region. |
| JobPilot | JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European job site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on European jobs with branches in a number of European countries. |
| JobServe | Jobserve: UK based job search focused originally on IT Contracting work, but now covering multiple areas. Resume database, large number of job postings. |
| Monster.com | Monster.com: The world's largest resume database and online job search. |
| Naukri (India) | Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job search engine. |
| Recruit.net | Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows you to search jobs worldwide. |
| Simply Hired | SimplyHired.com - Job search engine. Search over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs sites to find a job you love. |
| StepStone | StepStone (Europe): European online recruitment site based in Scandinavia with operations and subsidiaries througout Europe. |
| The Ladders | TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for professional jobs in the most comprehensive source of $100K+ jobs on the internet. |
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Legal:
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| Canadian | Canadian Law List: List of Canadian lawyers. |
| Lawyers.com | Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company |
| FindLaw | FindLaw: Search FindLaw's database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your area. All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by Subject Area. |
| The Lawyers | The Lawyers List |
